Questions for an Ecology assignment. These questions are basedon the article: Barbosa, Pedro, et al. \"Associationalresistance and associational susceptibility: having right or wrongneighbors.\" Annual review of ecology, evolution, andsystematics 40 (2009): 1-20.

1. Describe an example the authors provided for a way thatcompetition with a neighboring plant can alter its susceptibilityto herbivores. Can you think of another instance in whichcompetition between focal plants and neighbor plants might lead toeither associational resistance (AR) or associationalsusceptibility (AS)? Or vice-versa-- herbivory can altercompetitive interactions between plants as well! Please describeone case.

2. The meta-analysis found that diet breath (an insects’ degreeof specialization) had little influence over the likelihood of ARor AS on plants (Figure 2c). However, their evaluation of ‘neighboraffects’ across generalists and specialists did not considerseveral potentially important interacting factors, includingrelative plant abundance and biomass of both the neighbor and focalplant, as well as taxonomic relatedness of the neighboring plant.How might these factors interact with herbivore diet breadth toalter a plants’ susceptibility? (choose one)

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